From the standpoint of insurance coverage, the single-payer system offers basic medical care to the poor and elderly, and private insurance plans emphasize quality of care. ... Republicans protect the interest of private insurance and pharmaceutical companies, preserving the capability for the health care system to deliver world renowned specialized care and encourage innovation. ... When insurance companies are allowed to use their marketing strategies freely, specialized care is unobserved by consumers that benefit most from it. ... Revenues collected from tax penalties of the uninsured an...

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Instead, it is because insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies are trying to get more profit from the American people. ... (MSNBC News Service, 1) The problem of a lack of insurance for many is related to the problem of the cost of healthcare. ... In the 1980's, as the insurance market approached its current state of out-and-out private dominance over America's healthcare policy, "in companies without unions, employees were force to pay higher deductibles and co-payments and share the cost of premiums. Some employers resorted to 'churning,' switching policies just ...

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How will our national housing policy adapt to the senior boom? ... Government policies should encourage private sector investments in products and services to help the needs of the aging baby boomers and reflect the diversity in lifestyle, race and income of the future senior citizens. ...

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They were severely mentally ill, for instance, or end-of-the-line substance abusers-people incapable of caring for themselves, unable to keep themselves housed, and newly visible because of drastic changes in policies that had previously kept them institutionalized in hospitals or jails. ... There seems to be an economic path to homelessness, through rent hikes beyond incomes, unemployment, low wages, or some combination thereof (Loveland 241) The electoral emergence of the New Right in the 1980s under the governments of Margaret Thatcher in Great Britain and Ronald Reagan in the United Stat...

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This shared sentiment meant "it becomes the duty of each to endeavor to maintain that form which they think most useful and agreeable to themselves, most likely to preserve order and decency in their public worship."13 If this kind of institution were allowed to be created in the new sovereign, United States, then order and decency in public policy would be in jeopardy. ...

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According to the book Social Problems: Community, Policy, and Social Action, a social problem is be defined as "a social condition that has negative consequences for individuals, our social world, or our physical world" (Leon-Guerrero, 2015). ...

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The Vicious Circle of Homelessness Who are the homeless? They range from children to adults and even in some cases, families. Everywhere you go, everywhere you look, there is always someone less fortunate than you, some places more than others. Homeless people come from all walks of life. Anyone ...

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"The fact is that the automobile has become hypnotic...the opium of the American people." - Fortune Magazine Table of Contents Introduction The Rise of the Automobile The Styling Redesign The Role of Attainable Pricing for the Masses The Emerging American Obsession The Impact on the Nuclear Family Redefining the American Teenager The Rise of the Hot Rod Culture The Rise of the Excess Culture Baby Boomers and Redesign Converting from Chrome to Muscle The Automobile as Identity Downfall and Decline Conclusion Bibliography Introduction With the end of World War II, the United State...

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